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Thank you for the info - I'm glad you are blazing the maintenance trail before me.

Made it through the 4th. We had a very successful party. It cooled off in the evening so we could spill out and eat on the deck and watch the fireworks later. Our 4 dogs (our 2 plus our DD's 2) and the cat all survived the fireworks without too much trauma. Yesterday, we pretty much just rested and puttered, putting things away. Today is DH's bday, which is being overshadowed somewhat this year by the BFF's son's wedding later today. Another friend from childhood (but only since we were 9) arrived last night for the wedding and will be staying with us for several days. So I've been busy!

Liz, I'm in the same boat re maintenance. I'm using semaglutide since tirzepatide is harder to come by in CA. What they told me at HenryMeds is to decrease slowly over a couple of months. In their experience, many people do well on half the dose they used for weight loss, though, of course that can vary. It sounds like that part of things IS pretty vague. I agree with you about the cost. I'm on a half dose now, but still paying the full monthly price since HenryMeds is a monthly subscription deal. I looked into Orderly but I wasn't able to get my questions answered satisfactorily without signing up with their service, but it sounds like they may let you pay by the vial. Anyway, I decided to stick with what I have until I'm feeling more confident about my maintenance dosage and then look around for alternatives.

Lizanne

Recent posts have me considering how silly it is to spend our lives collecting THINGS and then arranging our lives to care for them.

The growing intensity of my declutterring and downsizing has me fantasizing about how happy I might be living in 600 square feet with only 10 outfits to wear and only my memories and digital photographs to remind me of all the lives I enjoyed this lifetime.

Maybe my last incarnation this lifetime could be as a member of a non-religious retreat community where we take our meals together, have overnight laundry service and super-fast WiFi with lots of lovely nature trails to hike that somebody else maintains.

But today I must finish mowing the trails on this beautiful 25 acres I still care for. Truth is that chore actually doesn't suck.

Congrats on your first class upgrade. Good of the airline to make it up to y'all that way.

Thanks for all of the protein suggestions. I boiled up a dozen eggs this morning and made 2 of them into modified deviled eggs for lunch and added a beef stick for the extra protein. The modification was using Walden Farms honey Dijon mustard instead of mayo. Their dressings have zero calories, carbs, sugar etc. I used their dressing in a past weight loss program in egg salad and remembered it worked pretty well.

We had flash flooding today. Ended up with a little pond in the backyard. We were out shopping and the rain was coming down so hard it was hard to see the road. 5 inches in one hour! A dam broke in a community about an hour away. What a mess!

I'm actually finding it hard to get 1000 calories in at this point. I have to eat with a purpose for sure. Got a variety pack of pure protein ready made shakes. Hope I like them. I'm giving up on the protein powder I bought! I think it has been the biggest contributor to my GI woes.

Nothing much going on except shopping and cooking today. DS #2 comes home tonight, DS #3 comes home tomorrow and DC #1 will pop in as they can between work. Tomorrow we need to cut down a tree that unfortunately didn't survive the curb appeal we put around it a few years ago (root had to be cut to put in the curbing). It was a beautiful Autumn Blaze maple too! Darn it all! It still has a few green leaves on it but is for sure dying and we don't want buyers next year having to deal with it or making us deal with it at the very end! We jacked up a sinking landing to our steps also for that very reason! The joys of owning (and selling) a home! It will be me doing a major clean out like Liz next year.